Improvement in hoop-skiets



i @uiten tutatent @ffice F. HULL, or BIRMINGH A M, ooNNEo'rr'oiuT.Lef-ters Patent No. 71,487, dated November 26, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOOP-SKIRTS. i

TO ALL WHOM II MAY CON CERN :l I

Beit known that I, F. HULL, ofirmingham, in the county of New Haven, undState of Connecticut,

i have. invented a. new Improvement in Hoop-Skirts; and I do herebydeclare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanyingdrawings, und 'the letters of reference nnarked thereon, to be a full,clear, and

exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof this specification, and represent, inhp Figure I, a. front view of aportion of the tape with two hoops attached.

Figure 2, a longitudinal section on the line xx; and in Figure 3, avertical section on line yy. v,

This invention relates to an improvementy in the manner of securing thesprings to' the vertical tapes; and to enable'others to construct myimement, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in theaccompanying draxvings. i v Y i The several hoops are formed by passingone or more springs through a tape, which is formed with a longitudinalpocket to receive the spring or springs, represented in the drawings asthree springs, a aa, through a, tape, A.. In gs. 2 and 3 the springs arerepresented in black, the longitudinal tape in red, and the 'verticaltape B in yellow.` Theseveral springs may rst be braided in the usualmanner or not. The springs are inserted' Vinto their respectivepocketsin the tape A atthe edge of thetape, one or more are 'passed outfrom the pocket l Yin the tape A, and run through the pocket in thevertical B, then again into the pocket in the tape A at the oppositeedge of the tape'B, as seen in figs. 2 and Spend so around at euchvertical tape. If a single spriugl be used, the spring is passed outfrom the pocket in the tape A, in the same manner as described forthethree or more springs.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The attachment of hoops tover-tical tapes by means of the springinserted so as to passthrough thepocket p* in the vertical Atzipe while the covering of` the wire is uponthe outside of the poel/:et in the vertice-l tape, sub stantially asherein set forthl r. HULL.

Witn esses F. HALLOCK, EDWIN HALLooK.

